Get To Know Breast Anomalies With the Help of Self Breast Check

Being a woman you must be careful about the most sensitive part of your body breast as it is naturally prone to change throughout the life. All changes are not natural and due to various environmental, hereditary and dietary factors certain other changes take place as well and they are known as unusual changes or breast anomalies.

Breast Anomalies

Any change that is unusual and does not come into the category of normal changes should not be overlooked. Women of all ages should have information about usual and unusual changes so that anomalies can be identified promptly. Some of the breast anomalies which can be observed by women during self breast check are listed below

· Lumps of different sizes and types as some lumps are hard while others are soft to touch. Some lumps can move and have edges, but some are round and fixed.

· Swelling in any part of breast or armpit

· Nipple discharge of any color and type can be significant of breast cancer

· Nipple retraction, scaling and inversion

· Skin changes of any type such as appearance of dimples and wrinkles

· Changes of size, shape and contour

· Consistent breast pain

Women can notice all these changes if they are breast aware and perform self examination monthly. Monthly examination not only improve their awareness about the normal feel and structure of breasts, but also help them to catch the anomalies as they take place.

Self check is not difficult to perform and a female of 20 years old should perform it monthly because breast cancer can invade any woman regardless of age, but most of the cases are diagnosed in older women so they are advised to attend regular breast cancer screening so that anomalies can be detected when they are too small to be observed by other means of examining breasts.

Screening is offered to women without symptoms as the purpose of screening is to diagnose more and more cancer cases at initial stage when they are easily manageable and can be treated successfully. Those who attend regular screening sessions and also perform self examination reduce the chances of late detection and death with breast cancer.

Self examination should never be performed as diagnostic procedure and it is also wrong to replace it with other modes of examining breast as each method intends to make early detection probable so use a combination of different methods to catch the anomalies as soon as possible.

James is a blogger and writer. He usually writes about breast cancer, and breast examination. You can contact him directly at james@breastlight.com.

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